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Gardening

stopwastingmymoney

(2,143 posts) Thu Aug 15, 2013, 10:55 AM Aug 2013

My sweet banana peppers are almost too hot to eat

The plant is next to an Anaheim chili, which also turned out very hot.

I guess I have to segregate the sweet from the hot next year.

Has anyone else experienced this?

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My sweet banana peppers are almost too hot to eat (Original Post) stopwastingmymoney Aug 2013 OP

I only grow the little cherry bombs. They are hot enough for us. femmocrat Aug 2013 #1

Cross pollinaton can definitely occur. beac Aug 2013 #2

femmocrat

(28,394 posts)

1. I only grow the little cherry bombs. They are hot enough for us.

Reply to stopwastingmymoney (Original post)

Thu Aug 15, 2013, 12:58 PM

Aug 2013

I have NO bell peppers for the second year in a row. I used to have so many, I would give them away. Sux.

beac

(9,992 posts)

2. Cross pollinaton can definitely occur.

Reply to stopwastingmymoney (Original post)

Sat Aug 17, 2013, 07:25 AM

Aug 2013

And if it has been unusually hot and dry in your area, that can turn up the heat in hot peppers as well.

A couple of summers ago, a waiter at a Latin restaurant told us they had to modify their recipes that year b/c all the jalapenos were coming in three times hotter than normal due to the drought.

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